“We need to start developing guns that can shoot close/mid range EMP pulses.”
Contrary to popular Internet legend, EMP isn’t this “destroy all thing electronic and electrical”. heck, if it were, you wouldn’t survive (your very heartbeat relies on electrical impulses). EMP may disrupt something but it doesn’t destroy it unless it is connected to very long wires that can absorb the pulse over very long distances. EMP lasts a few milliseconds and it over. It doesn’t hang around forever like those on the Internet claim. It is a very brief electrical pulse that is actually very weak.
What are the odds that the Russians or Chinese have a battlefield weapon that switches off or glitches out enough of our high-tech battlefield electronics to take away our digital edge?
If a battlefield can be forced back to 1950 Korea, even locally, we lost bigtime.